Two original works created for a 1903 edition of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which were long thought lost, have ...

Rivers are shrinking and aquifers are falling, raising fears of “water bankruptcy” as billions experience increasing water shortages.

Despite decades of industrial deposition, nitrogen availability in the boreal forest is steadily declining. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural ...

Struggling kelp forests like those along the California coast show why 'out of sight, out of mind' is not good climate change ...

A massive, centuries-long drought may have driven the extinction of the “hobbits” of Flores. Climate records preserved in cave formations show rainfall plummeted just as the small human species ...

Island’s mineral and resource wealth is result of mountain building, rifting and volcanic activity over 4bn years As recent manoeuvres over Greenland have made plain, this mostly ice-covered island ...

President Donald Trump has renewed his efforts to take over Greenland, and tapping into the Danish territory’s natural resources is a key part of the strategy. But even if Trump were to somehow make ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a second hearing in as many weeks with more than two dozen bills. A Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee will examine a list of ...

New research based on 22 years of satellite data shows vast areas of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. These regions include much of the American West, Mexico, Central America and ...

Natural resources shape economies and influence global politics, and some countries hold astonishing reserves of them. Oil, coal, timber, metals, and rare earth elements fuel industries, while ...

Among ongoing efforts to rethink the basic tenets of mainstream economics is a provocative new book by James Galbraith and Jing Chen. The authors sweep aside the intellectual structure of mainstream ...